Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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Midi is my hobby.
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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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I have never truly applied myself. Lots of things have come too easily to me and at too high a level.
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I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
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The people that you work with, the organizations that are committed to the same objectives. If they know that you're in it together, and you're working towards the same objectives, and you agree on how to do more with less, you can actually have a greater impact.
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Commit yourself to an organization or cause that genuinely fires you up.
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People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.
